[linux-audio-user] Real-time kernel

[Chuckk Hubbard]

On 12/21/06, M P Smoak <smoak at mis.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:47 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
> > its deeply pathetic, and i think that intel should be absolutely
> > ashamed of what they have done. even creative did a better job than
> > this, without even trying to: the SB16 was a standard; not very good,
> > but a standard nevertheless.
> >
> > --p
>
> and deeply confining too.  Users, mostly "consumers", relegated to being
> listeners and viewers of the creations of others.  Not allowed to record
> or produce, just consume.  But, Wow: they've got the Latest and
> Greatest.
>
> And the foss folks walk on by, hardly seeing ...

I don't follow that last part.  I agree, SoundBlaster is embarrassing,
but they have the supply for a demand.  Should hardware be free too?
Should everything be free?